Weekend Scholarship Roundup

SCHOLARSHIP ROUNDUP

On Islamic Law

• In Muslim Women and Islamic Family Law: Lived Experiences in Britain (Routledge, 2025), Islam Uddin “provides an empirical study of the practice of Islamic family law in Britain. The book analyses the lived experiences of Muslim women and their interactions with the processes of marriage and divorce.”
• In “Analysis of Islamic Law and Positive Law on Marriage Due to Violation of Moral Norms” (Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Sharia Economics 8, no. 2 (2025)), Muhammad Sya’ban Siregar (Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia) and others “analyze marriage due to violations of moral norms in Pematang Siantar City based on the perspective of Islamic law and positive law in Indonesia.”
• In “The Validity of Talak Outside the Court: Perspectives of Islamic Law and Positive Law According to the Views of Religious Leaders in Central Lombok” (Al-Qalam: Jurnal Ilmiah Keagamaan Dan Kemasyarakatan 19, no. 1 (2025)), Doni Azhari (Department of Islamic Family Law, Faculty of Islamic Studies, Islamic University of

  Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and others “examine[] the perceptions of religious leaders on the legality of out-of-court divorce in Central Lombok using a qualitative approach and field research methodology.”

On Islam and Data Science

• In “Factors Affecting the Motivation of Prospective Waqifs to Endow Insurance in Indonesia” (International Journal of Scientific and Management Research 7, no. 11 (2025)), Hidayatul Ihsan (Politeknik Negeri Padang, Indonesia) and others “examine the factors that influence the motivation of prospective waqifs to endow through insurance products.”

FIELD GUIDE TO ISLAMIC LAW ONLINE: RECENT SOURCES

The Field Guide to Islamic Law Online is an ever-growing collection of links to hundreds of primary sources and archival collections around the world, online. We recently added new resources to this list:

• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies – Digital Resources provides a list of digital resources on Islamic law ranging from resource guides to digitized collections of primary sources.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

PIL & Harvard Calendar:

• Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Genealogy of the Death Penalty for Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam” by Mohsen Kadivar, Program in Islamic Law, March 11, 2025.
• Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop: “Law and Sufism in Modern South Asia.” with M. Qasim Zaman (Princeton University), April 1, 2025.
• Islamic Law Speaker Series: “A Cultural History of the Arabic Book: Digital Explorations of Writerly Practices and Text Reuse” by Sarah Savant, Program in Islamic Law, April 8, 2025.
• Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop: Latifeh Aavani (Harvard University), “The Global Codification Movement and the Development of Legal Reforms in 19th-Century Iran,” April 14, 2025.
• Fellowship: May-Crane Fellowships, Harvard University 2025 (deadline to be announced).

Calendar:

• Award: 2025 LCH Julien Mezey Dissertation Award, March 15, 2025.
• Postdoctoral Fellowship: Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, March 26, 2025.
• Call for Submissions: Journal of Legal Research & Analysis, volume 3, issue 1, April 15, 2025.
• IISMM Seminar Series: “The Economics of Waqf: From the Imperial to the Personal,” IISMM, France (remote option), April 18, 2025.
• Conference: The 2025 Annual Conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences at LUMS, Lahore, April 18-20, 2025.
• Symposium: 12th Annual Graduate Symposium, hosted by the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council (MIISSC), Montreal, April 24, 2025 (deadline February 17, 2025).
• Call for Papers: Symposium on Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Royal Holloway University University of London, April 30, 2025 (deadline March 15, 2025).
• Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, May 1-3, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5, 2025).
• Call for Papers: 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 2-3, 2025 (Deadline: January 31, 2025).
• Call for Papers: “ Islamic and Jewish Law in the Modern Economy,” University of Villanova School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 5-6, 2025 (Abstract submission deadline: January 31, 2025).
• Conference: Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Queen Mary University, UK, May 8-10, 2025 (Paper proposals: October 31, 2024; Panel proposals: November 30, 2024).
• IISMM Seminar Series: “From Jerusalem to India: Endowments and Gender Influences,” IISMM, France, May 16, 2025.
• LSA 2025 Annual Meeting: Chicago, Illinois from May 22-25, 2025 (Early registration: December 3, 2024; registration: January 3, 2025).
• Call for Papers: “Towards a Global Ecological-Economic Legal Framework,” ESIL IG, Paris, June 6-7, 2025 (deadline February 28, 2025).
• 2025 Hurst Summer Institute: Legal History, University of Wisconsin Law School, June 15-27, 2025.
• Conference: Law, Culture, and Humanities 27th Annual Conference, Georgetown University, June 17-18, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 31, 2025).
• IISMM Seminar Series: “Waqfs, women and circles of power,” IISMM, France (remote option), June 20, 2025.
• Conference: The Middle Ages in the Modern World, London Strand Campus, King’s College London, June 24-26, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: January 13, 2025).
• Summer Language Intensive Program: Istanbul University Institute for Islamic Studies, July 7 – August 8, 2025.
• Summer School: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, Leiden University, August 18-29, 2025 (Application deadline: May 5, 2025).
• Faculty Fellow: Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 2025-2026, September 1, 2025 (Deadline: March 24, 2025).
• Call for Papers: ASLH 2025 Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, November 13-15, 2025 (Deadline: March 25, 2025).
• Conference: MESA 2025, Westin Downtown, Washington DC, November 22-25, 2025 (Proposal deadline: February 13, 2025).
• Position opening: Senior Lecturer in Law, History, and Society, Vanderbilt University, 2025.
• Search for Editor: International Journal of Middle East Studies, until an appointment is made.
• Internship opportunity: The Executive Office of the President, White House, various deadlines.
• Position opening: Academic mentor and field researcher in Iraq, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich, rolling basis.
• Position opening: Academic mentor for researcher in Mogadishu, Cordoba Peace Institute-Geneva (CPI) & ETH Zurich.
• Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam.
• Call for Manuscripts: Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.